University of Tennessee at Chattanooga sophomore Taylor Hall was honored as the Southern Conference women’s basketball player of the week for her part in wins over league leaders Davidson and Appalachian State. She scored 24 points against ASU after contributing 16 points and 10 rebounds against the Wildcats, and she totaled eight 3-point baskets in the two games. The third-seeded Lady Mocs are scheduled to play at 8:30 p.m. Saturday in the second round of the SoCon tournament at Asheville, N.C.
* Sewanee’s Valentino Bryant was a third-team All-Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference men’s basketball player for the 2011-12 season, and teammate Tyler Brown earned honorable mention along with Sewanee women’s players Dana Middleton and Kayla Sewell. Bryant averaged 11.9 points and 3.3 assists a game.
Golf
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — The UTC women’s golf team finished 10th Tuesday in the 33-team Edwin Watts/Kiawah Island Classic. The Mocs shot a combined 921 for the 54 holes. Augusta State won by 22 strokes with an 877. UTC’s Maria Juliana Loza tied for 31st individually at 228, and Jordan Britt, Mette Kryger and Marion Duvernay shot 231, 234 and 237. Playing separately, Sophie Weilguni had a 233.
Fishing
Marshall Deakins of Dunlap finished second by one ounce to Alex Davis of Albertville, Ala., in the Walmart Bass Fishing League Music City Division tournament Saturday on Lake Guntersville, and it cost him almost $4,000. Davis’ five fish totaling 24 pounds, 11 ounces earned him $5,963, and Deakins got $1,981. Allan Garner of Estill Springs was ninth in the co-angler group with a 13-14 total; Jim Saylor III of Knoxville won with 19-12.
Track & Field
Danielle Alfano from Chattanooga set the King College women’s record for the one-mile indoor run for the fourth time this season in winning the event at the JDL Fast Track Invitational this past weekend at Winston-Salem, N.C., and Monday she was announced as the Bristol school’s female student-athlete of the month for February. From her Jan. 28 mile at the Liberty Open, she has lowered the record more than 11 seconds to 5 minutes, 8.2 seconds. She has been a two-time NCAA Division II Academic All-American and was the 2011 Conference Carolinas academic cross country athlete of the year.